The print is smudgy and the oval graphic on the print is a raster that’s already been stretched, I think. Add the image focus being a little off and the compression by the file host, and it’s a conjunction of mess.

Protocol is strictly “Madam”.

You’ll see the same in other positions – Madam Speaker, Madam Secretary, Madam Ambassador.

*Madam

Succinct and accurate. Really wish people were more objective and less polarized on software.

We’re excited to announce the new Sony WH1000XM6 headphones, enhanced by the power of spanners!

I don’t see why my headphones need a sp-

Conveniently built in to your headset, you can use the spanner to adjust bolt tightness on-the-go!

Okay, but that’s not wh-

We’re proud to be leading the market in spanner-augmented products to bring a new level of convenience to your life.

…

Spanner may sometimes only appear to tighten bolts. Please don’t ask us the energy cost of manufacturing the spanner.

25th or 26th October seems likely to me based on the first announcement (Twitter link).

There’s a ton of history on Wikipedia. Most of it is the council coming up with new reasons to demolish it or plans to change it, with no convincing motive.

The most notable things for me were:

• An allegation that they want the bridge demolished to remove the trams that mar the modernity of the waterfront regeneration project nearby.
• A mention of Chinese lenders bankrolling the demolition and construction a Chinese construction firm being awarded the contract for constructing a new bridge.
• A mention of a Russian construction and design group submitting plans for transforming and relocating the existing bridge.

I’m weeping at the damage to those floorboards. Could they not have been lifted first?

Mark Gurman, who’s normally dead on the money when it comes to Apple, thinks they’re unlikely to keep up annual releases (though I should note the linked article suggests the new iPhone model schedule is unlikely to change for now).

I loved Season 1, but I felt it became bogged down after that - almost a soap opera.

The gameplay was fun (though I agree about the ghosts), but I found the writing obnoxious. Super melodramatic and weirdly absurdist, but at the same time really quite tedious.

Gandalf is the name of a dwarf in the Norse Poetic Edda (from which Tolkien borrowed a bunch of names, mostly dwarves). He supposed – probably accurately – that it meant “wand-elf”, but he originally gave the name to Thorin.

It was a joke, but the article itself does explicitly conclude this as one of its observations:

The findings raise big questions about the limits and future of polling, which relies on voters giving responses reflecting their real-life political behavior.

You mock now, but when you next need your telephone sanitized…

“Significant minority of people lie in polls, a poll reveals.”

Works for the UK too — high street chemists have given way to supermarket pharmacy counters to some extent, and most supermarkets will have fuel and fast food nearby.

You have to learn a lot about US culture and infrastructure (inductively) to use English-language social media; I don’t see why a meme that’s centric to a different country should be an issue.

I respect Rory Kinnear as an actor, but they could have cast someone younger.

“Am I being detained?”, my inner monologue screams.

Good list! We differ on some of them…

I take issue with the settings menu still relying on the old menus while having shuffled things around so I’m forced to look for settings

This is still an issue, but I feel it’s diminishing as they (annoyingly slowly) do move all of the functionality to the new app. It was much worse in Windows 10, I think.

I can say that the start menu is horrendously slow, it can take up to 5 seconds for it to load.

“Works on my machine” is a profoundly unhelpful answer for me to give, but I’m fortunate enough not to have experienced this. If you’re looking for a workaround and don’t mind a further Microsoft app, the launcher in Powertoys is pretty solid.

Sometimes keystrokes disappear in the start menu only to magically appear some time later.

God, I hate the search from the start menu - but I would say that it’s been profoundly broken since Windows 8 and is marginally better in Windows 11.

They made the right click menu worse and only changeable in regedit.

100% agreed. I do think Windows 10 and earlier had a growing issue with the context menus getting unwieldy (Visual Studio is a great demo of how this can get really out of hand) but the solution Windows 11 have brought is annoying more than useful. I suspect at one point I made the registry change and forgot about it, because I’m back to a big Win10-style list.

They made RDP credentials only saveable using CMD.

Agreed again. That said, you’re a masochist if you’re not using an RDP manager like mRemoteNG! I wish Microsoft had a decent RDP app that wasn’t tied into Azure.

They removed vertical taskbars.

I found vertical taskbars incompatible with hotdesking on desks with different monitor configurations, but I do agree this one sucks.

how to unfuck up windows 11 so it works how you expect it to.

I think “how you expect it to” goes to the core of my point - needing to adapt to change isn’t inherently bad. But I’m not pretending Windows 11 is a wholesale improvement, and I do concede many of your arguments.

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